Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
ALDOUS HUXLEYHug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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The third petition of the Lord’s Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone’s will be done but their own.
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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